FROM THE TOOF DR HIMSELF 'It was back to the OG Tasmaniacs place yesterday with a day spent with Jo Pickett. Many many people make each years trip possible, however it was Jo who I originally met during a trip to Tassie on which I was teaching dentistry about a decade ago who bent my ear and created the trips which have in the end benefited so many horses here. And in the cascade which has been the follow on tours it was directly through Jo initially that I met so many of the other Tasmaniacs. Theres a story that I tell about one of those early years working on a patient who started out chestnut and finished up a bay … but if I was exhausted then Jo must have been equally as tired because she was doing as much if not more in the background to make those trips possible and it was only through a place of wanting to see as many horses as possible get the right help. It was nice to be able to work with Jo yesterday, and at the same time we could both relax a bit . Anyway I guess I wanted to acknowledge Jo’s fundamental role in driving these trips to begin with, meeting Jo Pickett has certainly had a profound effect on me and I think a lot of horses too.'